Eclipse is not a record for everyone, and Twin Shadow’s older fans probably are justified in their dismissals. But in terms of emotional texture, Eclipse represents a return to form, after Confess’s brittle kiss and tell.

On Eclipse, Twin Shadow hasn’t completely lost the plot – scattered across the album are some nice little melodic turns. But while his debut album sounded wonderfully effortless, this one feels effortful in the worst possible way.

Eclipse is at times a desperate album, frantic to show off the limits of emotional and musical turbulence it's capable of reaching, and so the remaining glimmers of restrained cool lingering from Lewis's dominant influences are further diminished.

Eclipse blacks out nuance of every kind, resulting in a record which achieves its ambitions for sheer, bludgeoning vastness, but falls down on actually engaging the listener in simpler, more relatable ways.